Mission statement: On this blog we explore why homeschooling can be a better option for children and families than a traditional classroom setting. We'll also explore homeschooling issues in general, educational thoughts, family issues, and some other random stuff.

Monday, December 26, 2005

Where to send your submission for the next Carnival of Homeschooling

(This post will always the have information on where to send submissions for future Carnivals of Homeschooling.)

Submissions are due to: CarnivalOfHomeschooling@gmail.com by 6:00 PM (PST) on the Monday evening of the week. It will be greatly appreciated if the submissions come in earlier. Please send the following information:

Title of Post
URL of Post
Name of Blog
URL of Blog
Brief summary of the post
(With "carnival" or "submission" in the subject field of the email.)

You can also send in a submission via Blog Carnival by going here. (As of November 2011 Blog Carnival seems to be slightly broken. It is accepting entries and storing them in an Insta Carnival format available to me, but it doesn't have the complete information for a submission and the submissions are not being forwarded to the Carnival Hosts. So for now please just send an email to the CarnivalOfHomeschooling@GMail.com. Thanks.)

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Update I (12 Jan 06):
Please review these thoughts about expectations for carnival participants.
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Update II (16 Jan 06)
Spunky suggested have a gmail account which would forward the submissions to the host for the week. I've created CarnivalOfHomeschooling@gmail.com and will change where it forwards each week. I've moved the schedule to here.
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Update III (4 Jan 07)
We've had some trouble with GMail tagging submissions as SPAM. To make sure I can dig out your entry please put "carnival" or "submission" in the subject line. Thanks.
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Good question. In general most blog carnivals try to limit themselves to recent postings. Since this is the first carinval for homeschooling I have no problem with pulling postings from months, or even a couple years ago. Currently about a third of the submissions are from postings before December.

Over time I expect we will start to limit the submissions to more recent postings, but we really are learning as we go, and make some changes.

Homescholing is very new in my country. Some of the people think that people need class and teacher for learning. Bu I think people need information and they wish to learn. I am going to link blog from my web site.

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Are you still taking submissions for this? I have a recent blog post that you might be interested in. It is about why Christians should remove their children from government schools and educate them at home.

I would love to volunteer to host a carnival. I saw where we were to e-mail, but I couldn't find an address or link....so in any case. If you ever need a host, my e-mail address is MrsMamahen(at)gmail(dot)com. My Blog: MrsMamaHen.con I greatly enjoy these carnivals!